Open AccessThe Early Carboniferous (Mississippian) ammonoids from the Chebket el Hamra (Jerada Basin, Morocco)
Author(s) -
Korn Dieter,
Ebbighausen Volker
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
fossil record
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1860-1014
pISSN - 1435-1943
DOI - 10.1002/mmng.200800004
Subject(s) - carboniferous , ammonoidea , geology , viséan , structural basin , paleontology , biology , mesozoic
Five Late Viséan ammonoid assemblages of North Variscan provenance are described from the locality Chebket el Hamra (Jerada Basin, north‐eastern Morocco). These assemblages are composed of 27 species of the genera Eoglyphioceras , Girtyoceras , Sulcogirtyoceras , Metadimorphoceras , Goniatites , Arnsbergites , Hibernicoceras , Paraglyphioceras , Lusitanoceras , Sudeticeras , Neoglyphioceras , Lusitanites , Ferganoceras , Praedaraelites , and Pronorites . The new subfamily Arnsbergitinae is described, as well as the thirteen new species Eoglyphioceras minutum n. sp., Girtyoceras ibnkhaldouni n. sp., Metadimorphoceras anguinosum n. sp., Arnsbergites ferrus n. sp., Arnsbergites proiecturus n. sp., Arnsbergites rufus n. sp., Hibernicoceras touissitense n. sp., Hibernicoceras artilobatum n. sp., Paraglyphioceras celeris n. sp., Lusitanoceras zirari n. sp., Sudeticeras ibnbajjahi n. sp., Sudeticeras horoni n. sp., and Pronorites owodenkoi n. sp. (© 2008 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)